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Tesla and Lakhovsky
Greatest Electrical Pioneer of all was Nikola Tesla, who was
brilliant inventor despite the
fact that he had little formal education. Nikola (1856-1943),
electrical inventor, was born inYugoslavia , educated at the
polytechnical school at Graz and at University of Prague .
Heconceived new type of electric motor having no commutator, as
d.c. motors have, but workson principle of rotating magnetic field
produced by polyphase alternating currents.Constructing a
prototype, he found nobody interested in Europe . Emigrated to U.S.
1884and worked briefly and unhappily with Thomas Edison. He
established own lab and obtained
patents on polyphase motors, dynamos, transformers for a
complete a.c. power system. Heformed an alliance with George
Westinghouse, who bought polyphase patents for $1 million
plus royalty. With Westinghouse, engaged in struggle against
Edison to convince public ofefficiency and safety of a.c. over d.c.
He succeeded in getting a.c. accepted as the electric
power system worldwide which remains to this day.
Also with Westinghouse, he lit the Chicago World's Fair with
fluorescent lamps, he builtNiagara Falls hydropower plant, and
installed systems at Colorado silver mines, otherindustries. By
turn of the century was lifted to celebrity status comparable to
Edison 's asmedia promoted him along with the expanding electric
power industry. Experimentingindependently in his Manhattan lab, he
developed and patented scores of electric devices
based on his superior capabilities ofhigh-potential,
high-frequency currents: Tesla coil,radio, high-frequency lighting,
x-rays, and most importantly germane to our topic
-electrotherapeutic devices.
Nikola Tesla inside Colorado springs stationHis High-frequency
inventions were ignored by established technology, as were disk
turbine,free-energy receiver, other inventions. Shut out by media
except for birthday pressconferences. At these predicted
microwaves, TV, beam technologies, cosmic-ray motor,interplanetary
communications, and wave-interference devices that since have been
namedthe "Tesla howitzer" and the "Tesla shield." In the 1930's he
was involved in wireless power
projects in Quebec . His last birthday media appearance was in
1940. He died privately andmysteriously at 87 in New York hotel
room from no apparent cause. Personal papers,including copious lab
notes, impounded by U.S. Government, surfaced many years later at
a
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Tesla Museum in Belgrade , Yugoslavia . Of these notes, only a
fragment, Colorado SpringsNotes, has been published by the
Museum.Another one of the electrical engineers was a Russian
emigrant, Georges Lakhovsky whomade observations of the effects of
electricity and radio waves on living organisms. His first
book, THE SECRET OF LIFE, was first published in 1935 during the
same month Hitler
drove his hordes into Prague . The book appeared later in
Spanish, French, Italian, andfinally in English.Many of his
theories were, of course, ignored in conventional medicine as in
1938, theFlexner Committee reported to the US Congress it report on
medical education and brandedelectrotherapy as "quackery". Many of
Lakhovsky's theories were only recently confirmed
by Becker in his book THE BODY ELECTRIC, published in 1987.The
Italians were the first investigators to seriously study his new
science,RADIOBIOLOGY, and put it to the test in laboratories and
clinics. It resulted in astonishing
photographs of regenerated tissues in plants and human beings.
It became indisputable factthat Lakhovsky was the first serious,
scientific investigator on the use of high-frequencyelectromagnetic
waves in biology. The first international Congress of Radiobiology
was held
in Venice in 1934. A leading authority on electrotherapy, Dr.
E.P. Cumberbatch wrote:Although it had frequently been observed
that the short Hertzian waves could produce heat ata distance from
the transmitter, the first scientific investigation from a
biological point ofview was made by Lakhovsky and his colleagues
who published a paper in 1924 on theeffects of very short waves on
cancer in plants. Mark Clement later wrote: "In this country,owing
mainly to the inauspicious time at which Lakhovsky's major work was
published, verylittle interest has been shown on the part of those
best qualified to judge of its merits. Themedical profession, whose
conservatism is the most formidable barrier to progress, has
beennotoriously slack in investigating the new radiobiological
methods of treating disease asoriginated by Lakhovsky."Lakhovsky
built a device called the multiple wave oscillator, which today is
the basis of forelectrotherapy technology. Lakhovsky's first units
were built on the basis of the Arsonvaleffect, low voltage, high
current coil transmission. The units were bulky and naturally
ranhot. In 1931, frustrated with the design, he asked Tesla for
help in design, which hecomplied. Tesla traveled to Europe where
the friendship was established.Ten years later Lakhovsky traveled
to New York City to visit his friend Tesla. Lakhovskywas
mysteriously hit by a limousine and knocked high into the air. The
three men in thelimousine took Lakhovsky to a hospital against his
demands to be left alone. Three days laterhe died in the hospital.
Who only knows the rest of the story ?
